;jlhgjklahgaskdfh i had to write a paper last year about this, but he let us be really ridiculous with our suggestions. on a serious note, though, maybe you could argue that there is no way to solve it? things are so fucked up that it really seems pretty impossible.
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Date: 2007-10-29 02:20 am (UTC)rocks fall, everyone dies?
somehow, I don't think your professor would go for it, but...it'd be effective.
I suppose the question becomes what is meant by problems in the mideast. our involvement? *ALL* the problems? some combination of the two?
what class is this for, my good lord?
and while I doubt it'll help...my friend and I are generating some ideas for you... (taken as an excerpt from our convo):
lisa:
yeah.
er...
korean nuclear test gone bad?
iranians bloweded dem all up?
T:
~giggles~
lisa:
or india/kashmir send a few tactical missles off course?
T:
~snerk~ Russia farted en-mass while afghanistan was lighting up the hooka?
see? not at all helpful, but maybe it'll make you laugh...
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Date: 2007-10-29 02:22 am (UTC)Maybe you can pull some profound existentialist thing and be like "You don't. Because look what happened when we tried in 2002! No good done."no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 02:44 am (UTC)and hopefully some smartness.
daaaang that's tough.
good luck.
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Date: 2007-10-29 05:46 am (UTC)*holds*